| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP8448 |
| DP8448 Knocking on Heaven?s Door? Protestantism and Suicide | |
| Ludger Woessmann; Sascha O. Becker | |
| 发表日期 | 2011-06-01 |
| 出版年 | 2011 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We model the effect of Protestant vs. Catholic denomination in an economic theory of suicide, accounting for differences in religious-community integration, views about man?s impact on God?s grace, and the possibility of confessing sins. We test the theory using a unique micro-regional dataset of 452 counties in 19th-century Prussia, when religiousness was still pervasive. Our instrumental-variable model exploits the concentric dispersion of Protestantism around Wittenberg to circumvent selectivity bias. Protestantism had a substantial positive effect on suicide in 1816-21 and 1869-71. We address issues of bias from mental illness, misreporting, weather conditions, within-county heterogeneity, religious concentration, and gender composition. |
| 主题 | Labour Economics |
| 关键词 | Prussian economic history Religion Suicide |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp8448 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/537276 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Ludger Woessmann,Sascha O. Becker. DP8448 Knocking on Heaven?s Door? Protestantism and Suicide. 2011. |
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